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The Indian pilot set for a historic space journey on Axiom-4
BBC ^ | 06/03/2025 | Geeta Pandey

Posted on 06/04/2025 12:32:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), set to take off from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida next week, will be piloted by an Indian as it soars towards the International Space Station (ISS).

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian air force is among the four-member multi-country crew of Ax-4 that will be spending two weeks on the ISS.

The flight, scheduled for 10 June at 08:22 EDT (12:22GMT; 17:52IST), has generated a huge interest in India as Group Captain Shukla will only be the second Indian ever to travel to space and the first to visit the ISS.

The trip comes 41 years after cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to fly to space aboard a Russian Soyuz in 1984. He spent nearly eight days there.

Ax-4 is led by former Nasa astronaut Peggy Whitson - a space veteran who has been commander of ISS twice, spent hundreds of days in space and done 10 space walks.

The team also includes Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski from Poland and Tibor Kapu from Hungary - just like the Indian astronaut, they will also be taking their countries back to space after more than four decades.

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The trip to ISS aboard Ax-4 - a commercial flight operated by Houston-based private company Axiom Space - is a collaborative effort between Nasa, Isro and European Space Agency (Esa).

Tuesday's flight will be launched using the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: axiom; axiom4; nasaaaa; spacex

1 posted on 06/04/2025 12:32:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Doin’ what the Hindu


2 posted on 06/04/2025 1:07:45 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

Hopefully no curry meals...


3 posted on 06/04/2025 1:55:58 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: minnesota_bound

“Hello NASA, your computers are infected. For just $149 we will rid your computers of the nasty virus....you can use PayPal...just send fee to ISS....”


4 posted on 06/04/2025 2:20:30 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
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To: BenLurkin
The trip to ISS aboard Ax-4 - a commercial flight operated by Houston-based private company Axiom Space - is a collaborative effort between Nasa, Isro and European Space Agency (Esa). Tuesday's flight will be launched using the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket.

Why are they calling this an Axiom/NASA/Isro/ESA flight when SpaceX is doing the heavy lifting? Shouldn't SpaceX get top billing here?

5 posted on 06/04/2025 2:40:13 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: BlackbirdSST
Because the fake media lies by omission. And are doing so here to not credit Musk and SpaceX.

Musk posted this useful chart on X earlier this year. It says a lot.


6 posted on 06/04/2025 2:50:13 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: BenLurkin

No continental breakfast will be provided


7 posted on 06/04/2025 3:16:43 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: BenLurkin
will be spending two weeks on the ISS.

How do they know they won’t be stranded for 8 or 9 months?

8 posted on 06/04/2025 4:10:02 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF ISR pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: FreedomPoster

Nice. We can’t hate our media enough.


9 posted on 06/04/2025 5:07:34 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: BenLurkin

Does he go by “Kevin”?


10 posted on 06/04/2025 5:14:23 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Mark17

Because they are going SpaceX, Boeing.


11 posted on 06/04/2025 5:44:28 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: BlackbirdSST

Correct.

Musk has done a LOT for free speech with his acquisition and operation of X.

Is it the perfect free speech platform?

No.

But it’s pretty damn good.


12 posted on 06/04/2025 6:04:50 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: BenLurkin

What they mean to say is the launch will be a SpaceX Falcon 9 and SpaceX Dragon capsule PAID for by Axiom Space.


13 posted on 06/04/2025 6:30:12 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BenLurkin

Geez H1B astronauts...(Just joking on that good luck guy)


14 posted on 06/04/2025 6:32:29 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat90000)
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To: BenLurkin
"Where we're going we won't need Space-X."

MagicCarpet

15 posted on 06/04/2025 9:15:53 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer ("We've taken care of everything, the words you read, the songs you sing...")
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